Detective Lt. Lou Torrey Quotes in The Stone Killer (1973)

[last lines]

[Torrey and Sergeant, in car, outside church]

Sergeant: Nothing changes, only the names.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You gotta be kidding. We're chest deep in water. Screaming against the rushing tide.

[Vescari goes into confessional in church, having organized murder of other Dons]

Don Alberto Vescari: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I haven't been to confession for ten days... I lose my temper

[in car]

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You know, last three weeks, in New York City alone, there were 159 homicides?

[in confessional]

Don Alberto Vescari: I don't mean to be harsh, but I struck my son in anger last Tuesday.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: 3,000 criminal assaults, 6,000 robberies.

Don Alberto Vescari: Ruth, my wife, bless her, I swore at her.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You multiply that by Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.

Don Alberto Vescari: For these, and all the other sins which I cannot remember, forgive me.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You remember that cartoon of an old Roman Circus, where all the lions are roaring, and the page boy yells down the corridor...

[to camera]

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You've got five minutes, Christians.

Lionel Henry Jumper: Don't hit me! I'll have you up on charges!

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: Who hit you? I wouldn't do a thing like that.

[punches Jumper in the face]

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You said when, Jumper?

Cab Driver: What's a nice guy like you want with the 4th Precinct house?

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: They give a good massage and a quick piece of ass.

Matthews: [sees Lipper's corpse] What hit him?

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: [unemotionally] A complete state of death.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: Lionel Henry Jumper?

Lionel Henry Jumper: No. I just do impersonations.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: We'll try one more time. Lionel Henry...

Lionel Henry Jumper: Yes!

Witness: [sees Matthews] You sure keep lousy company, man.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: Hey, I filled your plate for you.

Witness: That's cool. Say Torrey, I still don't wanna marry your sister.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: [smiling] That breaks me up. You wanna see the slob she did marry.